Jan Knippers Black is a Professor in the Graduate School of International Policy Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Jan has been a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford, a faculty member in the University of Pittsburgh's Semester-at-Sea Program, a Research Professor at the University of New Mexico, and a research team supervisor at American University. She is also author, editor, or co-author of more than two dozen books and almost 200 chapters or articles in anthologies, encyclopedias, journals, magazines or newspapers.